It is pretty much all you hear and read about today, Big Data!SGI has been at this for a long time. Because these trends in technology begin in labs, or specialized use cases, the manufacturers who tend to be engaged early on are those seen as innovators, with specific expertise to tackle the particulars of the problem set. Whether it is the largest Hadoop system, or the need to ingest data from multiple sources simultaneously, SGI creates storage solutions that tackle the largest and most complex data challenges. These capabilities then make their way into the commercial marketplace.Maybe you do not see yourself as having issues on the scale that would require such a portfolio of products and skills, but if you think about it, the issues faced by small and medium sized businesses are the same as those of the largest organizations; the capture, creation, storage and use of data, and today, if you are in a business that deals with the public, you have the additional concerns for the integrity of the data, as well as the need to store it for longer periods of time.Challenges such as file formats, the ability to tier your data to minimize capital costs and the ability to manage it all over the life of the data are real, and the results of choosing a system that will not serve your needs in the future will lead to increased costs and complexity as you will be forced to migrate from one system and management schema to the next.The ability to define “big data” on your terms means that SGI is someone that you need to consider.NAS SolutionSGI NAS includes full VM integration, even in mixed vendor environments, and can be expanded to extremely large global deployments with multi node clusters. With support for multiple NAS and SAN protocols, standard features such as inline deduplication and native compression, unlimited snapshots and cloning, unlimited file size, and high-availability support, SGI NAS is a powerful addition to the SGI InfiniteStorage ecosystem.InfiniteStorage GatewaySGI InfiniteStorage Gateway is a purpose-built appliance for enterprise data centers facing exponential growth of unstructured data and overwhelming storage expense. Leveraging SGI technology proven in many of the world’s largest Big Data environments and supporting multi-vendor storage infrastructures, SGI InfiniteStorage Gateway enables IT organizations to align data throughout its lifecycle with the most appropriate storage medium while maintaining seamless access, significantly reducing the cost of high volume storage.

Modular InfiniteStorageSGI Modular InfiniteStorage (SGI MIS) is a high-density integrated storage platform, designed for maximum flexibility in its capability to be configured to customer requirements and cost effectively scaling compute capability, performance and capacity to meet the needs of today’s data environments. SGI MIS is a solution that enables customers to have exactly the system they need today, with the ability to scale and adapt it to where their business takes them tomorrow.ArcFinitiArcFiniti brings for the first time the best of SGI’s powerful data management hardware and software tools together in a fully-integrated archive solution aimed specifically at providing a scalable, easily accessible solution to the problem of unparalleled growth of unstructured file-based data. The lack of an easily manageable long-term archive solution has caused growing difficulties in data centers of every industry, as expensive active storage is increasingly filled with inactive data. The resulting pressure on backup and DR, as well as the sheer cost of using active storage for inactive, yet still valuable data is the sweet spot that ArcFiniti is ideal for.RAID PlatformsSGI InfiniteStorageSGI offers a full line of state-of-the-art disk storage systems to meet a broad range of needs.SGI InfiniteStorage-SP The SGI InfiniteStorage SP (Select Product) solutions address the requirements of the most cost-conscious small businesses up to the most demanding data- intensive enterprise environments. The SGI With support for all common operating systems including Microsoft Windows, UNIX and Linux, SGI InfiniteStorage products can be deployed to any open systems environment.COPANCOPAN products are all based on an Enterprise MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disks) platform, which is ideally suited to cost effectively address the long-term data storage requirements of write-once/read-occasionally (WORO) data. COPAN solutions remove the pain associated with tape recovery and management and the cost and footprint associated with typical disk solutions. COPAN technology simplifies your long-term data storage, drastically lowers your utility costs, and frees up valuable data center floor space.